| OBSEQUIOUS | Fawning on double-o, use squib for it (10) |
| FIREWORKS | Bangers, crackers, rockets and similar squibs for which Handel composed a kingly suite; or, a display of anger, musical virtuosity, temper or wit, evocative of said pyrotechnics (9) |
| STRIKEHOME | Three-wheeler on double bend in impact |
| CENTREFOLD | Coin tosser getting on double-page spread |
| NOSYPARKER | Damp squib, you might say, encapsulating the ultimate in dreary gossip |
| UNSUITABLE | Squibs essentially going into crackers out of place (10) |
| PLEASANTRY | Squib |
| ONSIDEKICK | Squib kick |
| ANTICLIMAX | Damp squib |
| PROMOTIONS | Squibs |
| LOOKALIKE | Double I, double K, double O, double L, a different E (9) |
| MAGENTA | Double-o-seven's boss gets double-o-seven, perhaps, a fuchsia |
| SERVILE | Fawning on first half of preacher's message is disgusting (7) |
| LOVEIN | Nauseating mutual fawning on live broadcast |
| ALLOVER | Fawning on, everywhere (3,4) |
| CESSPOOLS | Double S double O cisterns |
| FINE | "I had to pay a parking ... for parking on double yellow lines" |
| WIMBLEDON | Light-footed, changing direction to put on double triumph for 19Ac (9) |
| ATHOUSANDANDONE | MI associate and double "O" shot on the US shores (1,8,3,3) |
| CREOSOTE | 'Double O' assumed by wily secret agent stopping the rot (8) |
